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The Return of Chest Hair!

From Mad Men's Jon Hamm to Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick, torso-fros are (finally) making a comeback. Plus: A gallery of the hottest fuzz.

Published Dec. 10 2008 10:48AM EST

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---ford_ds5v1q — Warner Bros./Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---ford_f34a5t — Han Solo brandished the original hunky man pelt.
Warner Bros./Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---selleck_ii76et — No one does body or facial hair like Tom Selleck. Nobody.
Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---reynolds_wqlrlf — Burt Reynolds: King of packing wool
Columbia Pictures/Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---guttenberg_n2a4h3 — The Goot is a master of two things: acting in 80s movies and posing with his shirt off.
20th Century Fox/Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---pitt_ocnywi — Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise started a decade-long trend of smooth torsoed men. We forgive him.
MGM/Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---danson_mjrpeh — A Hawaiian button-down with a dark tuft exposed is classic '90s hunk wear.
Warner Bros./Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---dicaprio_xc4frp — The boyish look of Leo's clean pecs has been replaced by hair once again. Good thing he can act.
20th Century Fox/Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---craig_ck4fbl — Craig ushered in a new era of bare-chested sex symbols; we think he might be waxing.
Sony Pictures/Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---hamm_uez8gp — He's slick in Mad Men, but shows torso-fro when it counts.
Carin Baer/AMC/Everett

galleries/2008/12/10/the-return-of-chest-hair/chest-hair---westwick_igcknv — Even teen heartthrobs have jumped on the unbuttoned bandwagon.
Kevin Mazur/WireImage/Getty

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